Koyuki Hikawa isn't great with people and always puts up a wall between others. She had been spending her high school days alone, but one day meets the overly friendly Minato Amamiya. The loner, Koyuki, the popular girl, Miki, the guy with no personal space, Minato, and the laid back member of the basketball team, Yota... The story of these four somewhat awkward students in their bloom of youth begins!
Mayuri, twenty-six-year-old, is a sales worker at one of the leading advertisement companies in Japan. She is beautiful, sociable, and clever. However, there is something she is troubled by...her stalker. This someone follows her no matter how many times she moves. One night, she spots a suspicious man fumbling in her trash. She realizes that he is Ryo, her classmate from high school. He must be the stalker! Mayuri, feeling pure rage, suddenly comes up with a plan...let him think she is in love with him, then dump him! A love story full of suspense!
So is this what it means to have roommates now?! Office worker Rinko, 24, lives alone and is secretly an otaku. One day, her apartment gets connected to the two neighboring rooms through a "hole" in the wall. In the room on the left is a fresh-faced yet mysterious guy who is overly-sweet to Rinko. The room on the right is occupied by a guy with violent tendences who is similarly mysterious... But wait! "I... I think I know him!" Rinko's only source of solitude, her apartment, has been turned upside down. Now, every day is full of heart-pounding surprises!
Chihiro, twenty-five-old, is madly in love with her colleague, Nakaba. He's cool, clever and handsome. They go for a drink almost every day, so she knows that he likes her too. However, she can't ask him to go out with her, since part of her thinks she's happy the way they are. One day, her good friend tells her that she should tell Nakaba right away that she loves him, or else he'll be some other girl's boyfriend. Chihiro decides to tell him, but she's got a big project to handle in front of her... Can they become lovers?
"What did I just 'feel'...?" The daughter of a baron, Melvy Renoir, has a peculiar constitution that impedes her ability to feel anything. Derided and oppressed by her family as an unsettling "defective product," she is ordered to marry Duke Gerald Valrier, feared as "The Bride-Slaying Duke." Feeling her life in danger, she reluctantly visits the duke's mansion. Upon meeting him, Gerald declares, "If you don't lose consciousness when I touch you, I will make you my wife." The moment his fingertips touched Melvy, her body, which should not feel anything, is overcome by a sweet, numbing "pleasure"... That encounter would come to serve as the prologue to a story in which two "flawed people" learn about love...
"Even if you never loved me, I still wanted to save you."
Lunia, the daughter of Count Persephone, lived a lonely life-rejected by her father and treated as a mere tool by her half-brother. When a priest selected her as the bride of Duke Hades, master of the cursed Khronoa family, she seized her only chance to escape by marrying into the duke's household.
The Khronoa family, feared as the "Dark King" for handling the empire's darkest affairs-affairs that could kill anyone who became involved-was bound by a curse: unless the duke married the bride chosen by the emperor, his life would be cut short. Unlike the rumors, Hades's presence captivated Lunia at once. Yet he made it clear he had no intention of loving love her.
Confused by his rejection when her very existence was meant to save him from the curse, Lunia deceived him to keep him alive, sharing one fateful night with him before disappearing, unaware that she was now carrying his child...
Seven years later, Hades finds Lunia-and this time, he is determined to bring her and their child back home...
Ito, who loves to watch Anime all alone, has a twin sister, Oto, who is an actress known all over Japan. One day, Oto disappears...and Ito has to take her place! Oto is married to a famous actor Manato, and Ito needs to live with him...someone who reminds Ito of her favorite character in the Anime! Soon Ito finds out that their marriage is fake, but Manato seems to have a secret... When Ito falls in love with him, he starts to change...what is his intention? An awkward love story.
I'd like you to sleep with me. The day after my birthday, the chief I look up to made me a shocking request. I agreed wanting to be useful to him, but... he suddenly pushed me down looking nothing like himself!! Mikan Sasaki, an office lady who can see spirits, is pretty worried about all the evil spirits attached to Chief Akutsu, whom she's one-sidedly in love with. Moreover, she's been feeling a truly wicked presence among them lately... That very night, when she was drinking in the park in the name of a birthday party alone, he just happened to pass by and bring her back to his place... She then woke up with no memories of the previous night and her handsome chief sleeping right next to her!! I'm wounded and there's a bandage on it, meaning that I caused him trouble, right...? I asked him what I could do to pay him back, but for some reason he asked me to sleep with him!? In his room, in his bed filled with his scent, my heart is about to explode just from lying down next to the one I've loved for a long time. I can't believe I'm this close to him, whom I've always only watched from afar... A bed time love story about how an awkward pair get a bit closer every passing night.
Episodes 1-100: Main Arc / Episode 101+: Side Stories Atop the execution scaffold, Ella Walker looks back on the first half of her life. Her engagement to Prince Gil was forcibly annulled-handed over to her stepsister, Isabella Walker-she was banished to a remote region already rotten to the core, and to crown it all, held responsible for a riot that erupted there and put to death. Ella meets her end still carrying the despair of having had not a single ally. Yet somehow, she finds herself cast back in time-reborn ten years into the past. Given a second chance, Ella makes up her mind: this life, she will live bound by nothing-just watch. To that end, she willingly cedes the position of Prince Gil's fiancee to Isabella and, as lord of the remote region before it rots to its core, drives one reform after another to success-this time beginning a life of happiness different from her former one. Yet the guillotine of fate refuses to lift from the nape of Ella's neck, driving the blades of all manner of hardships into her. Can Ella escape the looming fate of execution and seize her happiness...?
Rua is a saintess-in-training blessed with healing powers-but her gift comes with a cruel flaw: to cure others, she must take their pain and afflictions into her own body, suffering the consequences herself. Branded "defective," she endures the scorn of the other saintess candidates-except for her closest friend, Arianne, who always stands up for her.
One day, Commander Garrot-the man Rua secretly loves-lies at death's door. Rua heals him completely, only to collapse and hover between life and death. When she finally wakes, it's a nightmare: the credit has been stolen, and Garrot is already engaged to Arianne.
Betrayed and cast aside, Rua swears she will never heal anyone again. Then the second prince, Sven, offers her a deal: revenge on those who humiliated her. Armed with a hidden power-to inflict on others the very ailments she once took into herself-Rua joins hands with Sven and begins a new life... not as a "saintess," but as a villainess.
Aiko worked hard to get a job at a good company, but in her first year, she meets Seiichi and ends up marrying him. Acceding to his wishes, she quits her job and becomes a housewife. At first, everything is smooth sailing. She enjoys her role supporting the man she loves as he aims for success... But before they've even been married a year, Aiko discovers that Seiichi is having an affair. It starts with small things, like coming home late, but it continues to get more and more flagrant. In spite of what she knows, Aiko still holds out a tiny hope for the husband that she loves, and resolves to continue with this imperfect but tranquil lifestyle. That is, until she discovers an even more shocking truth...!
Chinatsu, who was transferred to a small company, meets a friendly guy who sits next to her. However, soon she finds out that he is a ghost...who only she and her boss can see. Her boss was an exorcist, and her department was in charge of haunted properties!
Checking properties with rumors of ghosts is not easy...and she also has to do something with her feeling to ghost sitting next to her! Can she fall in love with a ghost!?
Airi, a daughter of a small bakery owner, was hired by a large food producing company. It was a dream-come-true for her. On her way home, she was suddenly taken to the CEO's house to meet their son, Akinari. He was an Otaku, loving this character "Love-chan" so much that he refused to marry anyone in the real world. And this Love-chan looked exactly like Airi...! Airi starts to live with Akinari, and in return her father's bakery gets support from her company. Akinari is handsome and sweet...Airi starts to have feelings for him while working close to him in the company. But she is not sure...does Akinari loves her, or just Love-chan!?
"Your scent grows sweeter when you're excited." "It's embarrassing..." Born to a mother of the fox clan and a human father, Mio was left in the care of cruel relatives, treated as little more than a servant. Her whole life changes when Kyosuke, the high lord who rules the city, becomes captivated by her scent. Falling in love at first sight, he sweeps her away and quickly marries her. Though anxious about their wedding night, it all melts away as Kyosuke draws closer, her body burning up as if in heat! Their souls intertwined by fate, can their love withstand those who wish to tear them apart?!
Her family always put her brother first. Her fiance always put his best friend first. However, after Sylvia has been looked down on just for expressing her desires her entire life and too many betrayals from her fiance to count, she decides enough is enough. She declares that she's done being everyone's afterthought and is going to prioritize herself from now on. That very day, a split-second judgment to rescue a young street urchin turns out to be a decision that will change her life. She quickly realizes that the young boy is actually the emperor's illegitimate child Leon, and her own talents are soon discovered by the emperor's half-brother, the "Battle-Crazed Duke", Wilhart. Wilhart asks Sylvia to be Leon's attendant in the Imperial Palace, and for the first time in her life, she feels needed. And despite the rumors of Wilhart's cold, war-hardened demeanor, Sylvia finds him gazing at her with a passion he's never shown anyone else...!
Lunatia, a viscount's daughter who possessed the ability of "Future Reading," had been used by her family as they pleased. Exploited even by her fiance, she eventually lost sight in one eye, the price of her ability. If things continued as they were, all five of her senses would disappear, and the only future awaiting her was to become little more than a shell of a person...... And so, Lunatia left home, aiming to "live freely and, at the end, meet a clean death." She made her way to the mansion of the "Moon-Devouring Marquess," a man said to be searching for a bride. Before Marquess Nox, feared as cruel and wicked, Lunatia put forward her terms: "If you would make me your bride, I will read the future for you once a day." "Of course, I have no need for a husband's love." "And when I am no longer needed, at the end, please kill me by your hand." Thus began a married life built on mutual advantage. She kept the price of her ability secret, yet cracks gradually began to show, and in time, her husband, who should have been cold and ruthless, came to turn devoted love toward her...?
Reizera was on the verge of breaking off her engagement, and at the same time bad rumors were spreading about her family's wine farm. But one day, a duke's son asks her to marry him, she starts the life of LADY....
Born in the Kingdom of Yua Levanna as the child of the second wife, Amelia was loathed by the royal family alongside her mother, who possessed a special power. That power: poison magic. Her mother's power was exploited to bolster Yua Levanna's military strength, and worn down by it, she soon passed away. Afterward, though she suffered horrific treatment at the hands of her family, Amelia has endured a harsh life by holding close to her heart only the words her dead mother left her: "No matter what happens, never lose heart." One day, news arrived that the emperor of Saulverka, the mysterious empire to the north, was seeking a wife. Her half-brother Craig, who had ascended the throne in place of the previous king after his sudden assassination, plotted a political marriage to make the empire his own. And so he sends Amelia to Noam, the emperor renowned for his cold and merciless nature. What awaited her there was cold treatment from the beautiful emperor. Even as she laments her own life, it is only after leaving her country that Amelia learns the truth of how her mother had been treated, and she burns with fury. To avenge her mother, she swears vengeance upon her homeland.
Ryoka, who is in charge of school discipline at the school committee doesn't like one of her junior, Rima Sasaki. Rima breaks school rules all the time, but she looks like she doesn't care at all. Since Ryoka likes to look after people, she is always troubled by Rima. One day, Rima comes to cafe where Ryoka works part-time dressing like a boy. Rima thinks she is really "Kazu", a cute boy, and seems to have special feelings for him....